Spotlights

Shefali Sharma is a 3rd year, psychology and pre-med student here at SDSU. She is currently leading her organization, Save Soil, which promotes awareness of soil degradation across the globe. The Save Soil movement originated in India and is now a worldwide movement. Shefali came across the global movement and decided to take part and bring awareness to San Diego State. The goal of Save Soil is to spread awareness about the lack of soil nutrients and to change policy across the world

Kaylen Wilson, a graduate student from San Diego State University’s Environmental Health Lab run by Dr. Eunha Hoh, recently led the achievement of gold level certification through My Green Lab®, making their lab the first to be certified on campus!

Anna Cilley graduated from SDSU in 2022 with a B.A. in Sustainability. She now works as the Assistant Operations Manager for non-profit Plastic Beach.

Olivia Humphrey is a senior at San Diego State University. She is very involved with sustainability on campus, not only through her environmental science major and sustainability minor, but also through her leadership positions such as being this year’s Green Love Commissioner. Learn about Olivia’s goals for Green Love, inspiration for her environmentalism, and dream for a sustainable future here.

Alum Richard Ybarra attended SDSU in the 1970s, later on becoming involved in the Farm Workers’ Movement and the Environmentalist Movement. He is currently the president of the Ybarra Company on Public Affairs. Sharing over 30 years of leadership experience, Ybarra was able to offer valuable advice to help all of the SDSU community in promoting environmentalism and diversity! Read here.

Leading the Office of Energy & Sustainability at San Diego State to achieve sustainability goals across campus

Project Coordinator at The Energy Coalition Using her sustainability knowledge and project management skills to help public agencies be more energy efficient.

Brian Macdonald is an SDSU alum who started the first zero waste takeout company in San Diego! Using his business skills and passion for sustainability, Brian founded M’Porte. M’Porte uses endlessly reusable stainless steel containers and partners with restaurants so that customers can get takeout completely zero-waste by using and returning the M’Porte container. Read this spotlight to learn about his journey at SDSU, the development of M’Porte, and his advice for current students here.

Jenna Long is a second-year sustainability major with a minor in honors interdisciplinary studies. Her love of the outdoors led her to switch her major to sustainability and pursue a future career helping the environment. Currently, Jenna is a San Diego State campus leader for Seedlings, a multimedia platform focused on positive environmental news and encouragement. Read the spotlight article with Jenna to learn about her sustainability journey, experience being a sustainability major, and work with Seedlings here.

Tasia Meyer is a third-year Environmental Engineering major at San Diego State University. In addition to studying the environment in her major, she has held the position of zero waste intern for the Office of Energy & Sustainability for the past year. Her role includes inputting waste data into a system called SkySpark and working on projects that help SDSU become less wasteful and more sustainable. Keep reading to learn about Tasia's sustainability journey here!